I'll have an avocado salad please, and make it extra large

Giant avocados, large enough to make three gallons of avocado soup or two pounds of guacamole, are about to go on sale in Britain.

Fourteen inches in circumference and as large as a water melon, the naturally grown pears are eight times the size of a normal avocado and will feed a family of six.

The monster fruit are all descended from a single, ancient tree at Devil's Cliff, a town in South Africa's Northern Province. At the time of the Dutch Settlers, the tree was discovered to produce bumper-sized avocados, probably the result of a genetic mutation.

Staff at Tesco, the first supermarket to import the freakish fruit, have nicknamed the giant avocados "J-Los" after Jennifer Lopez's best known anatomical feature.

Pound for pound the giant fruits will cost a third the price of normal avocados.